, 1887-03-09

Turkan, 925 English miles,
LET us compare the length Of the vari-
GUS routes by days, and as the mileage has
been ascertainfd with a pair Of dividers,
let us assume that only an average of six
miles could be- made daily, Congo route
Land journeys, SO days; Zanzibar to Congo,
by steamer, % days; Lower Congo, by
steamer, three days; Upper Congo, by
steamer, 81 days. Total 157 days. Ka-
rave rOntp, land journeys, 1876 days. Nasal
rOnte, land journey l54 days. The .aboye
facts speak for themselves.
Regarding Emin PaSha my information
is various. | am told he was one Of Mid
hat Pasha's medical attendants, and was
obliged to fly COEstantimople on the down
tall If that Minister. BY a pilgrim ship he
reached Suakim, and then he crossed The
desert aud made his way to KhartOum with
a caravan. Reduced to very low circum-
stances, he was introduced to Gordon. who
gave him a billet as stOrekeeper, and after
wards appointed him doctor. 1t was in that
capacity he was found at Lado by a ira.
weller III the Equatorial Provinces, August
1877. Turning to an old diary of that De.
Rod, my informant read out to me certain
extracts wherein "Emin Efpndi' was re-
presented as a StambOul Turk. Here is a
quotation which | heard: "Emin EnFendi,
unlike Turks in general, exhibits a taste
for botanical research, and is quite a natu.
rallNt. l am also impressed by the fact
that, though he has acquired a singular
taste for scientific studies from contact
with Western civilization, be is as yet re-
markabIy free from its vices" Whence
one may gather that DR.. Schnitzlpr, alias
EmiD Efendi, must have preserved q strict
SncOgn6tO, by r~elicence and rigid abstentiom
from indulgence in g~osSip-alwsys recep-
tive, but never communicative.
From DR.. Junker | learn that Emin Pa.
Sha is tall, thin, and exceedingly short.
sighted that he is a great %linguiSt, Turk
ISL, Arabic, German. French, Italian, and
English being familiar to him-lO These
languages may be added a few of the Afri-
can dialects. he does not seem to have
impressed Junker with his fighting quail
ties, though as an administrator he is saga.
ciOus, %tactful, and prudent. His long iSo-
lation seems TO have discouraged hin. He
says Egypt does not care for US and has
forgotten US; Europe takes no interest in
what we do" He II Austrian by birth,
and is about forty-one years old.
"His force is dist ibuted among eight
stations, from 200 to 800 men in eAch-say
about 1900 in all. The garrisons of the
four DOrthPrnmOSt STATIONS were piscOntent~
ed and mutinOus at last accounts. They
nswere Emin'S advice to consolidate with
rrproacheS; his suggestions that they
should all withdraw from the Equatorial
Province via Zanzibar were responded to
Ivy accusations that he intended only to
sell them to Zaezibar as slaves.
'Junker cannot give AIN exact figure of
the force itself. or of the Egyptians, or
Gle, ks, or Dongolese with Emin, but, being
questioned closely as to details, replied
that the approximate number of those
likely to return with the expedition would
be as follows:
"Whitp Egyptian officers, 10; non-cOm-
misSioned (hlack), Is; white clerks (Copts
20; blacks from DongOla, Wady Halfa, &c,
30 men. 345. White women, %; black
women, 137-women, 1853. Children of
officers, 40; soldiers children, 60-children,
100. Total GOA.
"B DIES these, the native troops, on per.
ceiviug a general withdrawal, may also
desire 10 return with their friends and
comrades 10 Egypt. 1t is impossible to state
what may be the effect on their minds OF
the appearance Of the relief expedition.
The decision of Emin Pasha to remain or
withdraw will influence the majority.
n have acquired q great deal Of informa-
ton upon other matters which is interest
ing, but not Of Importance, and AS my letter
has already become longer than | had at
first intended, / shall defer mention Of
other things until ! can amman more
leisure. | expect my men from Wadv
Half. ia ha here this aftarnOOn Thav a iii